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Jeanne d'Arc stands, banner in hand, during the coronation of Charles VII before the high altar at Rheims.

Jeanne d'Arc stands, banner in hand, during the coronation of Charles VII before the high altar at Rheims.

THE GREAT EVENTS

BY

FAMOUS HISTORIANS

A COMPREHENSIVE AND READABLE ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY, EMPHASIZING THE MORE IMPORTANT EVENTS, AND PRESENTING THESE AS COMPLETE NARRATIVES IN THE MASTER-WORDS OF THE MOST EMINENT HISTORIANS

NON-SECTARIAN

NON-PARTISAN

NON-SECTIONAL

ON THE PLAN EVOLVED FROM A CONSENSUS OF OPINIONS GATHERED FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED SCHOLARS OF AMERICA AND EUROPE, INCLUDING BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS BY SPECIALISTS TO CONNECT AND EXPLAIN THE CELEBRATED NARRATIVES, ARRANGED CHRONOLOGICALLY, WITH THOROUGH INDICES, BIBLIOGRAPHIES, CHRONOLOGIES, AND COURSES OF READING

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

ROSSITER JOHNSON, LL.D.

ASSOCIATE EDITORS

CHARLES F. HORNE, Ph.D.
JOHN RUDD, LL.D.

With a staff of specialists

VOLUME VII

ornament.

The National Alumni

COPYRIGHT, 1905,
By THE NATIONAL ALUMNI

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CONTENTS

VOLUME VII

page

An Outline Narrative of the Great Events,

CHARLES F. HORNE

Dante Composes the Divina Commedia ( a.d. 1300-1318),

RICHARD WILLIAM CHURCH

Third Estate Joins in the Government of France ( a.d. 1302),

HENRI MARTIN

War of the Flemings with Philip the Fair of France ( a.d. 1302),

EYRE EVANS CROWE

First Swiss Struggle for Liberty ( a.d. 1308),

F. GRENFELL BAKER

Battle of Bannockburn ( a.d. 1314),,

ANDREW LANG

Extinction of the Order of Knights Templars

Burning of Grand Master Molay ( a.d. 1314),

F. C. WOODHOUSE HENRY HART MILMAN

James van Artevelde Leads a Flemish Revolt

Edward III of England Assumes the Title of King of France,( a.d. 1337-1340)

FRANOIS P. G. GUIZOT

Battles of Sluys and Crcy ( a.d. 1340-1346),

SIR JOHN FROISSART

Modern Recognition of Scenic Beauty

Crowning of Petrarch at Rome ( a.d. 1341),

JACOB BURCKHARDT

Rienzi's Revolution in Rome ( a.d. 1347),

RICHARD LODGE

Beginning and Progress of the Renaissance (Fourteenth to Sixteenth Century),

JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS

The Black Death Ravages Europe ( a.d. 1348),

J. F. C. HECKER GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO

First Turkish Dominion in Europe Turks Seize Gallipoli ( a.d. 1354),

JOSEPH VON HAMMER-PURGSTALL

Conspiracy and Death of Marino Falieri at Venice ( d.d. 1355),

MRS. MARGARET OLIPHANT

Charles IV of Germany Publishes His Golden Bull ( a.d. 1356),

SIR ROBERT COMYN

Insurrection of the Jacquerie in France ( a.d. 1358),

SIR JOHN FROISSART

Conquests of Timur the Tartar ( a.d. 1370-1405),

EDWARD GIBBON

Dancing Mania of the Middle Ages ( a.d. 1374),

J. F. C. HECKER

Election of Antipope Clement VII

Beginning of the Great Schism ( a.d. 1378),

HENRY HART MILMAN

Genoese Surrender to Venetians ( a.d. 1380),

HENRY HALLAM

Rebellion of Wat Tyler ( a.d. 1381),

JOHN LINGARD

Wycliffe Translates the Bible into English ( A.D. 1382),

J. PATERSON SMYTH

The Swiss Win Their Independence Battle of Sempach ( a.d. 1386-1389),

F. GRENFELL BAKER

Union of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway ( a.d. 1397),

PAUL C. SINDING

Discovery of the Canary Islands and the African Coast

Beginning of Negro Slave Trade ( a.d. 1402),

SIR ARTHUR HELPS

Council of Constance ( a.d. 1414),

RICHARD LODGE

Trial and Burning of John Huss

The Hussite Wars ( a.d. 1415),

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

The House of Hohenzollern Established in Brandenburg ( a.d. 1415),

THOMAS CARLYLE

Battle of Agincourt

English Conquest of France ( a.d. 1415),

JAMES GAIRDNER

Jeanne d'Arc's Victory at Orleans ( a.d. 1429),

SIR EDWARD S. CREASY

Trial and Execution of Jeanne d'Arc ( a.d. 1431),

JULES MICHELET

Charles VII Issues His Pragmatic Sanction

Emancipation of the Gallican Church ( a.d. 1438),

W. HENLEY JERVIS REN F. ROHRBACHER

Universal Chronology ( A.D. 1301-1438),

JOHN RUDD

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

VOLUME VII

page

Jeanne d'Arc stands, banner in hand, during the coronation of Charles VII, before the high altar at Rheims (page 347),

Painting by J. E. Lenepveu.

Richard II resigns the crown of England to Henry, Duke of Lancaster, son of John of Gaunt, at London,

Painting by Sir John Gilbert.

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AN OUTLINE NARRATIVE

TRACING BRIEFLY THE CAUSES, CONNECTIONS,
AND CONSEQUENCES OF

THE GREAT EVENTS

(FROM DANTE TO GUTENBERG: THE EARLIER RENAISSANCE)

CHARLES F. HORNE

FIFTY years ago the term "renaissance" had a very definite meaning to scholars as representing an exact period toward the close of the fourteenth century when the world suddenly reawoke to the beauty of the arts of Greece and Rome, to the charm of their gayer life, the splendor of their intellect. We know now that there was no such sudden reawakening, that Teutonic Europe toiled slowly upward through long centuries, and that men learned only gradually to appreciate the finer side of existence, to study the universe for themselves, and look with their own eyes upon the life around them and the life beyond.

Thus the word "renaissance" has grown to cover a vaguer period, and there has been a constant tendency to push the date of its beginning ever backward, as we detect more and more the dimly dawning light amid the darkness of earlier ages. Of late, writers have fallen into the way of calling Dante the "morning star of the Renaissance"; and the period of the great poet's work, the first decade of the fourteenth century, has certainly the advantage of being characterized by three or four peculiarly striking events which serve to typify the tendencies of the coming age.

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